Identifier: saustraliaitshis00stow (find matches)
Title: South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Stow, Jefferson Pickman, 1830-1908
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Publisher: Adelaide : E. Spiller, govt. printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r two temperance journals, and a few smaller periodicals. Thecountry districts own about a score of newspapers, of which one ortwo are published twice and the remainder once a week. Politicalmatters are discussed with vigor and outspokenness in the publicjournals, and the tone of the press generally is moderate anddecorous, though there are exceptions. The oldest journal in thecolony is the Register. The first number was published in Londonon the 18th June, 1836, and the second in Adelaide on the 3rdJune, 1837. After the j&rst few months of its existence in thecolony it was published once a week; afterwards for some yearstwice a week; but for the last thirty-five it has been a dailyjournal. The leading newspapers of Adelaide are conducted withgreat enterprise, and of themselves afford evidence of the progressof the colony. Many columns are devoted to European, foreign,and intercolonial telegrams and lengthy telegraphic reports ofimportant meetings all over Australia are published.
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a> o O?-» <Dc3 A 0) be 4-3 CDCD oa ITS METROPOLIS AND CHIEF TOWNS. 75 CHAPTER XI. ADELAIDE. Colonel Lights choice of the site—The Torrens—Wide streets—Post Office—TownHall—King William-street—Value of frontages—Markets—Terraces—Govern-ment Buildings—Park lands—Botanic Gardens—Mount Lofty Range—Suburbs—City Corporation—Assessment—The Dam—Port Adelaide—To^\■ns between thePortand the City—LeFevres Peninsula—The Semaphore—Largs Bay and jetty—The forts—Glenelg—Henley Beach—The Grange—Brighton—Kensington andNorwood—Unley—Gawler—Kapunda—The Burra—Port Augusta—Port Pirie—Yorkes Peninsula—Its mines and tOMTis—Wallaroo Bay—The hills and townseast of Adelaide—Mount Gambler and the Blue Lake—Port IMacDonnell—Beachport and other south-eastern towns and ports—Naracoorte and its famouscaves—Bordertown. The pioneers of South Australia were very fortunate in theirchoice of a capital. The site of nearly every o

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